New books: April 2012

February 28, 2012

Use your Grandview Library card to search & reserve the books below.

Just enter the titles into our catalog from your computer, or call Circulation at 614-486-2951 to have a staff member place a hold for you.

Want more? Find new books, movies & music.
Love digital materials? Download books, movies & music.

The titles below that are not at the Grandview Library may be borrowed for you from our consortium libraries.

NEW FICTION: April 2012

  • Alex Adams — White Horse
  • Nancy Atherton — Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch
  • David Baldacci — The Innocent
  • William Boyd — Waiting for Sunrise
  • Rita Mae Brown — The Big Cat Nap: The 20th Anniversary Mrs. Murphy Mystery
  • Wanda E. Brunstetter — The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club
  • Lee Child, editor — Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance
  • Carol Higgins Clark — Gypped: A Regan Reilly Mystery
  • Mary Higgins Clark — The Lost Years
  • Sandra Dallas — True Sisters
  • Eric Jerome Dickey — An Accidental Affair
  • Christina Dodd — Betrayal: A Bella Terra Deception Novel
  • Nick Dybek — When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man
  • Seth Grahame-Smith — Unholy Night
  • John Grisham — Calico Joe: A Novel
  • Carolyn G. Hart — Death Comes Silently: A Death on Demand Mystery
  • Lisa Jackson — Afraid to Die
  • Iris Johansen — What Doesn’t Kill You
  • Douglas Kennedy — Temptation
  • Philip Kerr — Prague Fatale: A Bernie Gunther Novel
  • Stephen King — The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel
  • Beverly Lewis — The Fiddler (Home to Hickory Hollow Series)
  • Rosamund Lupton — Afterwards
  • Liza Marklund — Last Will
  • Debbie Macomber — Starting Now: A Blossom Street Novel
  • Charles Martin — Thunder and Rain
  • Alexander McCall Smith — The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
  • Philip M. Margolin — Capitol Murder: A Novel of Suspense
  • Karen Marie Moning — Into the Dreaming
  • Christopher Moore — Sacré Bleu: A Comedy D’Art
  • Andrés Neuman — Traveler of the Century
  • Joseph Olshan — Cloudland
  • Michael Olson — Strange Flesh
  • Regina O’Melveny — The Book of Madness and Cures
  • Rajesh Parameswaran — I am an Executioner: Love Stories
  • Anne Perry — Dorchester Terrace: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
  • David Prete — August and Then Some
  • Amanda Quick — Crystal Gardens
  • Nora Roberts — The Witness
  • Charlotte Rogan — The Lifeboat
  • Ann B. Ross — Miss Julia to the Rescue
  • Anuradha Roy — The Folded Earth
  • Lynsay Sands — Under a Vampire Moon: An Argeneau Novel
  • Nick Santora — Fifteen Digits
  • Allison Winn Scotch — The Song Remains the Same
  • Lisa Scottoline — Come Home
  • Sidney Sheldon & Tilly Bagshawe — Sidney Sheldon’s Angel of the Dark
  • James Tabor — The Deep Zone
  • Jeet Thayil — Narcopolis
  • Anne Tyler — The Beginner’s Goodbye
  • Penny Vincenzi — More Than You Know
  • Joseph Wambaugh — Harbor Nocturne
  • Stuart Woods — Unnatural Acts: A Stone Barrington Novel

NEW NONFICTION: April 2012

  • Imran Ahmad — The Perfect Gentleman: A Muslim Boy Meets the West
  • Eric Alterman & Kevin Mattson — The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama
  • Elisabeth Badinter — The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
  • Willis Barnstone — The Poems of Jesus Christ
  • Bill Clegg — Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery
  • Tyler Cowen — An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies
  • Philip Delves Broughton — The Art of the Sale: Learning from the Masters about the Business of Life
  • Pierre Dukan — The Dukan Diet Cookbook: The Essential Companion to the Dukan Diet
  • Alan Ehrenhalt — The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
  • Richard Fortey — Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
  • Andrew Gumbel — Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed—And Why It Still Matters
  • Taras Grescoe — Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
  • Susan Gubar — Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer
  • Kelle Hampton — Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected: A Memoir
  • Eloisa James — Paris in Love: A Memoir
  • Jeffrey J. Jenssen & Michael Desimone — The Fire Island Cookbook
  • Simon Johnson & James Kwak — White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You
  • Sadakat Kadri — Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari’a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World
  • Alice Kessler-Harris — A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
  • Carole King — A Natural Woman: A Memoir
  • Jenny Lawson — Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)
  • Michael Lind — Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh — Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986
  • Dave Nasser — Giant George: Life with the World’s Biggest Dog
  • Regina O’Melveny — The Book of Madness and Cures
  • Dennis Prager — Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
  • Paul Preston — The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
  • Jim Robbins — The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet
  • Barbara J. Rolls — The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet: Smart, Simple, Science-Based Strategies for Losing Weight and Keeping it Off
  • Eric Rutkow — American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation
  • Allison Samuels — What Would Michelle Do?: A Modern-Day Guide to Living with Substance and Style
  • Michael J. Sandel — What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
  • Michael Savage — Trickle Down Tyranny: Crushing Obama’s Dreams of a Socialist America
  • Josh Schonwald — The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food
  • Ruchir Sharma — Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
  • Susan Sontag — As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
  • Martha Stewart — Martha’s American Food: A Celebration of Our Nation’s Most Treasured Dishes, from Coast to Coast
  • Vivian Swift — Le Road Trip: A Traveler’s Journal of Love and France 
  • Christopher Simon Sykes — David Hockney: The Biography
  • J. Randy Taraborrelli — After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family—1968 to the Present
  • Loung Ung — Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness
  • Zach Wahls — My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family
  • Tony Wagner — Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
  • Vanessa Williams & Helen Williams — You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-Nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss (and Each Other)

MON, FEB 20: Library closed

February 16, 2012

The Library will be closed Monday, February 20, for a staff traning day.

Donate items to children in need

February 16, 2012

The Grandview Library is a donation spot for the Ohio Kiwanis’s Project Backpack, which provides free backpacks filled with personal items to children who have been removed from their homes via Children’s Services
See suggested item list below, and bring in your donation!
A collection box is located just inside the Library’s parking lot doors.

The project goes continues through October 1, 2012.

From the Ohio Kiwanis website:
Across Ohio, between 10,000 and 12,000 children are removed from their homes on an emergency basis for their protection, often without anything but the clothes they are wearing. This is very traumatic for them as they are separated from family, friends, schools and churches. First Lady Cheryl wants to show these children that someone cares by providing inexpensive backpacks, with personal care items, and small toys and stuffed animals to these children in all 88 counties of Ohio.
List of suggested donation items:
  • sample size soap
  • shampoo
  • toothpaste
  • deodorant
  • tooth brushes
  • combs
  • brushes
  • hair ties
  • small toys
  • small blankets
  • diapers
  • baby wipes
  • baby bottles
  • pacifiers
  • children’s socks
  • hats
  • gloves
  • pajamas
  • underwear
  • infant body suits (Onesies)
  • sleepers

Thank you for your donation!

New books: March 2012

February 8, 2012

Use your Grandview Library card to search & reserve the books below.

Just enter the titles into our catalog from your computer, or call Circulation at 614-486-2951 to have a staff member place a hold for you.

Want more? Find new books, movies & music.
Love digital materials? Download books, movies & music.

The titles below that are not at the Grandview Library may be borrowed for you from our consortium libraries.

NEW FICTION: March 2012

  • Susan Wittig Albert — Cat’s Claw: A Pecan Springs Mystery
  • Carol Anshaw — Carry the One
  • J.G. Ballard — Kingdom Come
  • Dan Barden — The Next Right Thing
  • Louis Begley — Schmidt Steps Back
  • Peter Behrens — The O’Briens
  • Ted Bell — Phantom: An Alex Hawke Novel
  • Rhys Bowen — Hush Now, Don’t You Cry: A Molly Murphy Mystery
  • C.J. Box — Force of Nature: A Joe Pickett Novel
  • Suzanne Brockmann — Born to Darkness
  • Caroline Brothers — Hinterland
  • Laura Childs — Agony of the Leaves: A Tea Shop Mystery
  • Catherine Chung — Forgotten Country
  • Alicia Clifford — The Affair
  • Harlan Coben — Stay Close
  • Jack Coughlin &  Donald A. Davis — Running the Maze: A Kyle Swanson Sniper Novel
  • Clive Cussler & Justin Scott — The Thief: An Isaac Bell Adventure
  • Stephen Dau — The Book of Jonas
  • Carolina De Robertis — Perla
  • Carole Desanti — The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R.
  • Louise Doughty — Whatever You Love
  • Jennifer DuBois — A Partial History of Lost Causes
  • Alex Dryden — The Blind Spy
  • Åke Edwardson — Sail of Stone
  • Lyndsay Faye — The Gods of Gotham
  • Joanne Fluke — Cinnamon Roll Murder
  • Nicci French — Blue Monday
  • Vanessa Gebbie — The Coward’s Tale
  • Heather Graham — The Unseen
  • Jane Green — Another Piece of My Heart
  • Lauren Groff — Arcadia
  • Sanjay Gupta, M.D. — Monday Mornings: A Novel
  • Nick Harkaway — Angelmaker
  • Kathryn Harrison — Enchantments
  • Noah Hawley — The Good Father
  • Heidi Julavits — The Vanishers
  • A.J. Kazinski — The Last Good Man
  • Etgar Keret — Suddenly, a Knock on the Door: Stories
  • Hari Kunzru — Gods Without Men
  • Joe R. Lansdale — Edge of Dark Water
  • Owen Laukkanen — The Professionals
  • Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden — Joe Golem and the Drowning City: An Illustrated Novel
  • Madeline Miller — The Song of Achilles
  • Naomi Novik — Crucible of Gold
  • Joyce Carol Oates — Mudwoman
  • James Patterson &  David Ellis — Guilty Wives
  • Richard North Patterson — Fall from Grace
  • Chris Pavone — The Expats
  • Thomas Perry — Poison Flower: A Jane Whitefield Novel
  • Jodi Picoult — Lone Wolf
  • M.J. Rose — The Book of Lost Fragrances: A Novel of Suspense
  • Lionel Shriver — The New Republic
  • Mark Allen Smith — The Inquisitor
  • Danielle Steel — Betrayal
  • Olen Steinhauer — An American Spy
  • Kate White — So Pretty It Hurts: A Bailey Weggins Mystery
  • Randy Wayne White — Chasing Midnight (Doc Ford)
  • Kate Wilhelm — Death of an Artist: A Mystery
  • Susan Wilson — The Dog Who Danced
  • Jacqueline Winspear — Elegy for Eddie: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

NEW NONFICTION: March 2012

  • Daron Acemonglu &  James Robinson — Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
  • Adrienne Arieff — The Sacred Thread: A True Story of Becoming a Mother and Finding a Family – Half a World Away
  • Roland Barthes — Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
  • David Bodanis — The Ten Commandments: The Hidden History of the Truths We Live By
  • Deepak Chopra — Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life’s Greatest Challenges
  • Lizzie Collingham — The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
  • David Corn — Showdown: Inside the Obama White House
  • James Dale &  Josh Luchs — Illegal Procedure: A Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty Business of College Football
  • Lucy Danziger — The Drop 10 Diet: Harness the Fat-Melting Power of Superfoods
  • Richard Davenport-Hines — Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From
  • Alain de Botton — Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion
  • Giada De Laurentis — Weeknights with Giada: Quick and Simple Recipes to Revamp Dinner
  • James Dodson — American Triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf
  • Charles Duhigg — The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change It
  • Ree Drummond — The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier: Simple, Scrumptious Satisfying
  • George Dyson — Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
  • Diana L. Eck — India: A Sacred Geography
  • Glen Finland — Next Stop: A Memoir
  • Masha Gessen — The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
  • Maria Goodavage — Soldier Dogs: The Untold Story of America’s Canine Heroes
  • Martha Herbert  & Karen Weintraub — The Autism Revolution: Whole-Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be
  • Eric Kandel — The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
  • Garry Kasparov — The Blueprint: Reviving Innovation, Rediscovering Risk, and Rescuing the Free Market
  • Michael T. Klare — The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources
  • Johah Lehrer — Imagine: How Creativity Works
  • Ricki Lewis — The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It
  • Josh Luchs — Illegal Procedure: A Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty Business of College Football
  • T.M. Luhrmann — When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
  • Abrahm Lustgarten — Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
  • Taylor Mali — What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
  • Frances & Edward Mayes — The Tuscan Sun Cookbook: Recipes from Our Italian Kitchen
  • Dr. Mike Moreno — The 17 Day Diet Cookbook: 80 All New Recipes for Healthy Weights Loss
  • Andrew Nagorski — Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power
  • Elaine Pagels — Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
  • Thomas Penn — Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
  • Robert Andrew Powell — This Love is Not for Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Ju Rez
  • Ahmed Rashid — Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
  • Marilynne Robinson — When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays
  • Anthony Shadid — House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
  • David K. Shipler — Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America
  • Kevin Smith — Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
  • R.J. Smith — The One: The Life and Music of James Brown
  • Caroline Stoessinger — A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World’s Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor
  • Cheryl Strayed — Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
  • Chris Stringer — Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
  • Craig Timberg & Daniel Halperin — Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It
  • Mark Titus — Don’t Put Me In, Coach: My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
  • Laura Vikmanis & Amy Sohn — It’s Not about the Pom-Poms: How a 40-Year-Old Mom Became the NFL’s Oldest Cheerleader – And Found Hope, Joy, and Inspiration Along the Way
  • Jeanette Winterson — Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
  • Kevin Young — The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness

Got tech questions? Ask Nate!

February 8, 2012

Got questions about technology, computers, devices, the Internet, etc?
Ask Nate!
The Grandview Library’s Technology Coordinator Nate Nguyen is available for small group or 1-on-1 sessions.
Schedule a time to meet with Nate by calling 614-486-2954.

FEB 10: Computer system down (morning)

February 8, 2012

The Library computer system (catalog & Internet access) will be unavailable due to maintenance on Friday, February 10, at 7 am. We hope to have system available by 9 am.
Thank you for your patience!
Questions? Call Circulation at 614-486-2951.

This month’s Checkout Champions

February 1, 2012

Announcing the January winners of Checkout Champion, a monthly contest featuring Donatos prizes for checking out the most Grandview Library items:

  • In the Kids category, Nicole Clayton wins a large, single-item Donatos pizza and a $10 Donatos gift card. Nicole checked out 149 items in January.
  • In the Adult category, Phil Brehmer wins a medium signature Donatos pizza and a $5 Donatos gift card. Phil checked out 282 items in January.

Thanks to Donatos for the terrific prizes.

Who will be the next Checkout Champions? It could be you!